One for Sorrow

My problem isn't that Neville can't improve at things since hard work and concentration could be worked on. Neville already has done that--he excels in herbology, he's not completely hopeless at everything. There's times when he's more suave than Harry and Ron and that doesn't bother me. But I admit I will dislike his character immensely if it turns out he was really superior and artificially held back either through memory charms, the wrong wand, or just suddenly clicking maybe because it fits into Elkins' essay too well. My biggest struggle with Neville is that I like him personally as a character but always find myself pulling against the lesson he seems to be about in canon--sometimes he's like the broccoli of the Potterverse to me. So I'd prefer if the parts of Neville that I do like were the ones that ultimately defined him and not the storylines that make me think broccoli.